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Author: Alain Herriott

Life and belief

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“We live in the world we made up.” —Jim Paul, Catapult: Harry and I Build a Siege Weapon

Our life is built around our beliefs and this sets the stage for what we will allow ourselves to do and what we won’t.  This means some of us will allow ourselves excellence and others of us will only allow mediocrity.  To free ourselves from the prison of mediocrity, we feel everything that seems to hold us there.  In so doing we realize we can be excellent too, all for the willingness to set ourselves free.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

belief, feel, free, Life

The Lightest Touch

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The lightest touch is accepting, it opens the firmest door.  Feeling is like that.  It shows us the closed doors of our past and through the most gentle acts helps them to open, ushering us into a whole new world of possibility.  We invite you to feel, not in a pushing way but in a welcoming unfolding way.  Welcome to a path that never really ends, for each seeming difficulty is an opportunity to feel and heal.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

doors, feeling, open, Touch

Complete and Whole

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As we continue to process our emotions, there comes a point where we realize that we are complete and whole.  Yes, life continues to evolve. Change is a constant in our lives, but these changes serve to open us further, even as they challenge us to step ever further down the road of awakening.  So we become. Whatever we choose to do in life unfolds before us and we know we are enough to meet any challenge.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

awakening, Complete, evolve, whole

A complete world

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Each of us thinks of ourselves as a world, complete unto ourselves. We see this world as separate, contained, and often judging the other worlds that seem to have it better or worse than we do.  As we process our emotions around these limiting thoughts and feelings we realize we are really a universe, connected and interacting with all the other worlds.  We are not separate, we are intrinsically linked.  As this realization occurs we become whole, compassionate and balanced.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

Complete, feeling, universe, whole, worlds

Feelings

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What do we do with feelings that feel out of control?   Most of us have been taught to push them aside, to bury them even though it feels wrong to do so.  We are told to rationalize and are told things like, “everyone feels bad once and a while, with time you will get over it.”  The first few times we do this it even seems to work.  But eventually we become overloaded with stuffed feelings.  To change this pattern, we can choose to let ourselves feel our feelings, so they can transform.  This begins the journey back to feeling whole, complete and at peace with ourselves.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

feel, stuffed, transform

Create

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“By being natural and sincere, one often can create revolutions without having sought them.” —Christian Dior

This is the nature of creating a new reality by being present and genuine.  Because feelings are what motivate us on our journey through life, people are drawn to this essential rightness.  When it feels right we allow ourselves to take a massive step forward and all else pales before it.  — Alain & Jody Herriott

Create, feel, genuine, reality

Rejoice

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“There is not one blade of grass, there is no color in this world that is not intended to make us rejoice.” — John Calvin

This is a deep truth.  Everything is an opportunity to rejoice in our ability to experience creation in everything we do.  Here is the kicker.  Most of us experience this awareness intellectually, for as we age and experience life we are simply not as excited about the “little things”.  As we allow ourselves to feel our doubts and fears, really letting them unfold, we again begin to experience the little things as the wonder they truly are.  —Alain & Jody Herriott

creation, feel, rejoice, truth, wonder

Love

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Give yourself a moment to think and you will realize there is really only one emotion in the universe — love.  Every other emotion that exists is love that is diminished or reduced.  When we allow ourselves to go into these diminished feelings they gradually unwind. This is a process of reintegration. As we reclaim what was lost, we discover that we are connected to a deep current of love that was always there whether we knew it or not. ~Alain & Jody Herriott

emotion, feeling, Love, reconnect

Feel

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“You learned to run from what you feel, and that’s why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.” — Megan Chance, The Spiritualist

In a way, this is very true, when we run from what we feel we create great internal imbalance.  When we learn to feel our feelings we unwind the madness. However there is nothing that needs to be accepted or settled for. Feeling is its own reward.  Allowing this we unwind and enter a state of presence; now we simply are. —Alain & Jody Herriott

feel, learned, madness, unwind

Problems

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Our problems are a mind set. They hold us in a grip that says all is lost.  As we go into feeling the grip lessens and things change for the better.  The old territory is what is producing the problem. The art of feeling allows us to replace this old territory with new and even unknown territory.  This is what gives us the opportunity to experience freedom and change.  ~Alain & Jody Herriott

better, change, Problems